The obvious question no one is asking...
Submitted by Storyteller on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 01:57
If Diebold election machines are hackable via the memory cards (See the movie Hacking Democracy if you haven't yet)...where can we get a few thousand of these memory cards at?
You want your fair election and a full hand counted vote? Let's get Ron Paul 100% of the votes in several states and let our opposition do the work for us!
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Although I know...
...this was a joke, if it were to be done, you wouldn't want to give RP 100%.
They would be less likely to suspect RP supporters if the totals were 0 votes or even under 10 votes for everybody. That would show hackability, require a thorough investigation into the hack and the system, and with no obvious winner, eyes might not look to RP.
However, you would be sought by Homeland Security as a native terroist and be thrown in some prison with no chance of ever getting out. Well, that is until RP wins the whole enchilada.
i disagree
Giving a 100% to a candidate would absolutely prove it was rigged and make the point that needs to be made once and for all. Anyone who rigs any Diebold machine to come out 100% for one candidate should be given the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Granted, it's still committing a felony. But why let the Neo-cons have all the fun?
No
It should be 100% for some other candidate, doesn't matter whom. But we don't want the public thinking Ron Paul hacked the vote.
And the Ruplican caucus results are in...
Rosa Parks wins with 100% of the vote
Now I Got A Chuckle Out Of That W/O Reading Other's Comments
Vote RON PAUL 2008
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I got your humor right off, funny. Of course no one would expect an honest person (RON PAUL) and his reflection of honest supporters to actually do this -- BUT you gotta admit it is tempting not to use all of the same tools the gangster opposition uses at times to ensure they stay king of the hill and one step ahead of us. I have a feeling that slippery slope would soon take us to 'gangster-land' where people die (war) and where people are robbed blind (IRS) and etc., etc. We certainly don't agree with going there do we.
Some tools of the trade do need to be picked up and used, if only as a last resort, same as a soldier might pick up an enemy's fallen rifle and use it against them if need be. Standing there scratching your head, looking down at that rifle on the ground and wondering if it's loaded, and doing nothing else, might just be the last thing you wonder about. Now don't get all bent around the axel here, I'm not suggesting shooting anyone, just trying to make a poetic point in how we do need to use some of the same tools -- Play hardball, stop accepting defeat (they don't accept it -- they keep right on playing by their own rules). The really bad guys, I mean.
Enough from me. As I said at the beginning -- I understood your humor, funny.
Vote RON PAUL 2008
T'was meant as a bad joke...
Guess I shouldn't poke angry bears with sticks...
Use a cattle prod instead.
A little joke is OK with me. I'm just cranky this morning...
Seeing as how they're a standard PCMCIA card
You can get them just about anywhere that sells computer supplies. Yep, that sounds super-secure to me allrighty!
As for hacking the vote to force a recount, how about we say we don't and don't, shall we? I think an accurate and fair count the first time is what we're aiming for. Just a thought.
I was waiting for this.
I was waiting for this.
me 2
I was waiting for that too...
All I can say is that you can guarentee that we would be caught, and the media will frame us as conspiracist cheaters. This would effectively end the campaign, and seriously (irreparably?) harm the libertarian (ron paul republican if you prefer) movement.
DAMN IF YOU DO AND DAMN IF
DAMN IF YOU DO AND DAMN IF YOU DON'T